This study investigates the relationship between women's political empowerment and quality of government in European regions. Given that the association is expected to be endogenous, we use exogenous variation in pre-industrial societal traits, legal origins, geographic characteristics, and...

In Ghana like elsewhere within the sub-Sahara Africa region, many people asserts right to land through customary mechanisms. There is however grave gender inequalities with regard to land access and security of tenure thereof within the customary land sectors Women’s weak access rights to...

Since the 1990s, gender mainstreaming has been a widely accepted strategy for promoting gender equality within governments, multilateral agencies, and development NGOs, although critics continue to question its premises and results. This paper reviews how the development agencies of Australia,...